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Title: Annual report of the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Massachusetts General Hospital McLean Hospital
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Publisher: Boston : the Hospitals
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21 rate them in small groups, or, the communicating doorsbeing left open, there is convenience in attendanceand supervision, as at night, for example. The threestairways are so arranged as to afford ingress andegress for any one of the different groups of rooms,without disturbing the occupants of other groups.The east wing is especially arranged for seclusionand quietude, or for those who are very ill and whosefriends wish to be with them; there is a special entranceto this wing. The method of heating and ventilating has beendescribed. There are four louvered turrets over ventchambers in the roof-space, that serve for the ventila-tion of different sections of the building. Each grxDupof bath and toilet rooms has an independent shaft forsteam and water pipes and for ventilation, leadingdirectly upward to the outer air. The plumbing isexposed in these apartments, which have floors ofmarble mosaic laid upon arches of Guastavino tiles,and the walls are of Keenes cement made smoothwith ena

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